Chair Feliz asks NYPD about street-level enforcement priorities

Okay, so a few questions on street-level enforcement.

As we know, micromobility devices provide a lot of benefits to our communities, and that could make enforcement on this issue challenging and complicated.

We obviously want to make sure there's a lot of interests and factors that we have to balance.

We want to encourage their use.

They're great for our environment, great for congestion.

They're great for the riders who are able to get from point A to point B very quickly, and we obviously don't want to over-enforce to the point where we'll discourage the use of these devices.

At the same time, we want to make sure that they're used responsibly and safely.

When these devices aren't used responsibly, they create foreseeable public safety risks for all of us, including the riders.

When people drive these devices recklessly,

running red lights, speeding, driving on sidewalks, driving on the wrong way of a road, they create foreseeable risks of injury for all of us.

And obviously, people in our city should not have to worry about their safety when navigating our streets.

So a few questions for the NYPD.

How does the NYPD prioritize enforcement violations related to e-bikes, bicycles, scooters, and mopeds?

Is it by location, type of violation, history in the region?

Right, so I'll turn it over to Chief Obey in just one second.

I think just at a high level, big picture, right, it's data, data we're getting from DOT, crash data, injury data, fatality information, obviously.

We're also getting, of course, we do get, and several council members have said this, right, complaints from the public, 3011 calls, issues raised in the community, and obviously all that has to go into it.

Again, it has to be data-driven.

It can't be anecdotal.

We're looking at the totality of the data we have, both in terms of DOT data, our own data, data regarding community complaints, and sort of looking at that in totality and being responsive to that.

So with that, I'll turn it over to Chief Obey.

Okay, so in addition to what Commissioner Garber mentioned, I did touch on the point-of-sale initiatives.

The goal there, again, is to remove unsafe motorized devices at these retailers, and I gave some testimony on that.

So with enforcement, we have...

The numbers, I could certainly provide the numbers, but I do want to emphasize that we focus on the worst violators and violations.

So essentially, on the most egregious violations, reckless driving, disobey steady red light, disobey traffic control device, wrong way driving, disobey stop sign, fail to yield, that

Those are the types of summonses that we focus on.

So I just wanted to just mention that.

But we do have the data to e-bikes, e-scooters, that type of thing.

And we also have seizures also.

That's on the enforcement end.